Source: Libertarian Institute
by José Niño
“The Constitution of the United States could not be clearer on the question of who possesses the authority to take the nation to war. Article I, Section 8 grants Congress alone the power ‘to declare War, grant Letters of Marque and Reprisal, and make Rules concerning Captures on Land and Water.’ The Founders understood that the decision to send Americans to kill and die in foreign lands was too consequential to rest in the hands of a single individual. They had witnessed the European monarchs drag their subjects into endless conflicts for dynastic glory and they resolved that the American republic would be different. That resolution lasted until 1950. President Harry Truman’s decision to send American forces into Korea without a congressional declaration of war established the precedent that every subsequent president has exploited.” (04/13/26)
https://libertarianinstitute.org/articles/the-constitution-died-in-korea